" She just told me to shut up and get on with transfiguring my raccoon."

“只是叫我闭上嘴巴，专心给我的浣熊变形。”

At this point, Fred caught his mother’s eye and quickly busied himself with the marmalade.

弗雷德看到他母亲的目光，赶忙低头专心吃他的橘子酱。

Often he needs to be kicked out of his absorbed reading.

他专心读书的时候，你经常午踢他一脚，才能把他从书里踢出来。

Attentive Listening This simple habit can change your life in ways you're not expecting.

专心倾听这个简单的习惯可以以你意想不到的方式改变你的生活。

Raskin left her job and dedicated herself to the bleating partygoers.

Raskin辞了的工作，专心致志于叫的派对。

She proved herself not only a capable, but a devoted nurse.

证明了自己不仅是一个能干的、而且是一个专心致志的护士。

If you want to simply maximize growth, why not just focus on lifting heavier?

如果你想简单地多长点肌肉，为什么不去专心举更重的东西？

Can we please try and stay focused on my problem here?

请专心讨论我的问题好吗？

A woman reading a letter by an open window.

临窗专心读信的女子。

The cob, who had been watching intently all day, saw the little head appear.

一整天里一直在专心观察着的雄天鹅，看到了这个露出来的小脑袋。

I immured myself for four years, and studied the laws of the empire.

我自我幽闭了四年，专心学习帝国的法律。

I think I work best in exams because you're given a time limit.

我觉得我考试的时候是最专心的，因为考试有时间限制。

Can we just drop it and focus on what we're doing here?

能不谈那件事，专心眼前的比赛吗？

Plus, this is where our minds are conditioned to focus on work.

而且，这里是我们的思维习惯于专心工作的地方。

No. If we really get snowed in, I'm gonna focus on my rube Goldberg machine.

没有。如果大雪封门，我就专心研究我的戈德堡装置。

Or perhaps it was his way of spurring me to do the same—totally harmless.

或许因为他喘不过气来，不想多说话，或许他只是想专心游泳或跑步，或许这可能是他激励我专心运动的方式——完全没有恶意。

Yes – to pay attention to something means to concentrate on something, to not be distracted.

是的，" 集中注意力做某事" 指的是专心做某事，不分心。

Laurie was carefully skating along the edge of the ice and didn't see the younger girl.

罗瑞正沿着冰的边缘专心致致地滑，没有看到这个小一点的女孩。

It's like she's kind of bent over and obviously concentrating, so it's not joy and bliss.

好像弯着腰，很明显，挺专心致志的，所以这不是关于快乐和幸福。

So the person who has tunnel vision doesn't see the other 618 people who are engaged or asleep.

有隧道视野的人不会去留意其他618个专心听课或睡觉的人。